'meliorism' in K-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher

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(noun) the belief that the world tends to improve and that humans can aid its betterment

Wayne's language is not that of renewal-through-destruction (and here Schumpterian capitalism and fascism, in most other respects entirely opposed, find themselves in sympathy) but of philanthropic meliorism.

—p.145 Gothic Oedipus: Subjectivity and Capitalism in Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins (139) by Mark Fisher

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meliorism (en)

K-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher
by Darren Ambrose, Mark Fisher, Simon Reynolds

K-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher
by Darren Ambrose, Mark Fisher, Simon Reynolds

K-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher
by Darren Ambrose, Mark Fisher, Simon Reynolds

meliorism (en)

K-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher by Darren Ambrose, Mark Fisher, Simon Reynolds

K-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher by Darren Ambrose, Mark Fisher, Simon Reynolds

K-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher by Darren Ambrose, Mark Fisher, Simon Reynolds

K-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher
by Darren Ambrose, Mark Fisher, Simon Reynolds

K-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher
by Darren Ambrose, Mark Fisher, Simon Reynolds

K-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher
by Darren Ambrose, Mark Fisher, Simon Reynolds